COVID-19, Gender, and Intersectional Discrimination: Can the Promise of International Human Rights Meet the Moment?

2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 377-381
Author(s):  
Amanda M. Klasing
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Ebola Virus ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Gender Inequity ◽  
The World ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Moment

Human rights documentation around the world has shown that crises disproportionately or distinctly impacts women and girls, whether conflict or natural disaster-related. This is true for disease outbreaks as well. Human Rights Watch has raised the concerns about the gendered impacts of the Ebola virus outbreaks in West Africa, or the human rights dimensions of the Zika virus impacts in northeast Brazil. The COVID-19 pandemic and response are no different. We are already seeing the disproportionate and gendered ways government responses to the pandemic are generating harm to women and girls and reinforcing longstanding gender inequity.

Conceptions And Interpretations of Human Rights in Europe and Asia: Normative Aspects

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-135
Author(s):  
Bożena Drzewicka
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
The West ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
The World ◽  
International Human

Conceptions And Interpretations of Human Rights in Europe and Asia: Normative AspectsThe issue of confronting values between civilizations has become very important. It influences not only the level of international politics but also the international normative activity. It is very interesting for the modern international law and its doctrine. The most important factor of causing huge changes in the system of international law is still the international human rights protection and the international humanitarian law which is related to it. It is very difficult to create one catalogue of executive instruments and procedures but it is possible to influence the attitude toward the basic paradigms. The frictions appear from time to time and move to other planes. The West and Asia are still antagonists in the dialogue on the future of the world. The article is a contribution to the intercivilizational dialogue.

International human rights

2019 ◽  
pp. 364-389
Author(s):  
Ronald Labonté ◽  
Arne Ruckert
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Normative Force ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
International Human

A long-standing and fundamental facet of global governance for health has been the development of an international human rights framework. Arising from the aftermath of World War II, human rights are comprised of several different covenants that constitute international law, albeit lacking in international enforcement measures. When these rights are instantiated within national laws or constitutions, however, they become justiciable within a country’s legal system. There are also global bodies responsible for oversight of their implementation. Their strength, as with that of the Sustainable Development Goals’ Agenda 2030, may rest more on their normative force—how the world’s people imperfectly expressed through their governments believe the world should work and look like. Given a growing illiberal temper in the emerging post-truth world, whether the norms embedded in human rights law can rise to the challenge of ‘taming’ globalization’s neoliberal underpinnings is a pivotal question still awaiting a firm answer.

18. Human Rights

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Cultural Relativism ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
World War ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Human Rights Regime ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Human

This chapter examines the concept of human rights, which derives primarily from the Charter of the United Nations adopted in 1945 immediately after World War II. It first provides a brief account of the history of the concept of human rights before describing the international human rights regime. It then considers two persistent problems that arise in applying the concept of human rights to the developing world: the relations between the claim that the concept is universally valid and the realities of cultural diversity around the world; and the relations between human rights and development. In particular, it explores cultural imperialism and cultural relativism, the human rights implications of the rise of political Islam and the so-called war on terror(ism), and globalization. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the new political economy of human rights.

Part V Institutions and Actors, Ch.28 Universality and the Growth of Regional Systems

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heyns Christof ◽  
Killander Magnus
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Regional Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
Arab League ◽  
International Human ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

This article focuses on the regional human rights systems. It suggests that the emergence of these systems constitutes an important dimension of broader participation in the international human rights project because they provide platforms where people from all parts of the world can potentially make their voices heard in the global human rights discourse. It compares the regional human rights systems of Europe, the Americas and Africa and considers other smaller initiatives such as the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

scholarly journals Analisis Dimensi Hak Asasi Manusia Terhadap Putusan Hakim dalam Perkara Pencabulan Anak di Bawah Umur (Analisis Konten: Perkara No. 166/PID.B/2006/PN PDG)

Humanus ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Akmal . ◽  
Aldri Frinaldi
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government

The purpose of this study was to review the judge’s verdict on case No. 166/PID.B/2006/PN PDG in terms of: (1) whether the judge’s verdict fulfills the elements of legal certainty, fairness, and benefit, (2) whether the judge’s verdict relies on the national and international human rights instruments as well as reviewing the aspects of violations of human rights particularly in cases of child abuse. The type of the human rights cases is domestic abuse of under-aged girls. This research used qualitative method with normative judicial approach. Data processing is done using content analysis. The conclusion of the research; (1) Council of Judges needs to understand the ratification of the Child Protection Law and Law on the Elimination of Domestic Violence as well as the International Human Rights Instruments by the Government of the Republic of Indonesia relating to the Convention on Children’s Rights, in order to stress the domestic child abuse as a form of violation against human rights and as a crime against humanity, (2) in order to protect the victims of domestic violence, particularly women and girls, judges should implement the Child Protection Law and Law on the Elimination of Domestic Violence in their verdicts and the Convention of Children’s Right, because the Penal Code KUHP has not guaranteed fully the protection of children and women as primary victims of domestic violence. Key words: human rights, council of judges.

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